Your Plans, Not Our Plans--July 19, 2017

Remind us, Lord Jesus, that very often

our plans are not your plans.

Sometimes you gather us to hear your word;

at other times  you send us away,

and then again you ask us to return home.

But whatever your plans for us,

they are always in keeping with your call:

"Follow me."

Lectionary Readings

Ps. 89:1-18; 147:1-11; 1; 33

1 Sam. 20:1-23

Acts 12:18-25

Mark 2:13-22

Selected Verses

Ps. 33:10

The LORD brings the counsel of the nations to nothing;
          he frustrates the plans of the peoples. 

1 Sam. 20:22

But if I say to the young man, 'Look, the arrows are beyond you,' then go; for the LORD has sent you away. 

Acts 12:25

Then after completing their mission Barnabas and Saul returned to Jerusalem and brought with them John, whose other name was Mark.

Mark 2:13-14

Jesus went out again beside the sea; the whole crowd gathered around him, and he taught them.   As he was walking along, he saw Levi son of Alphaeus sitting at the tax booth, and he said to him, "Follow me."  And he got up and followed him.